On a chilly winter night last December, scores of guests descended on the Cynamon family’s neoclassical mansion in the Forest Hill neighbourhood of Toronto, eager to rub elbows and snap photos with Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

Co-hosted by former Toronto Argonauts co-owner and multimillionaire David Cynamon, his wife Stacey Cynamon and investing mogul Michael Liebrock, the event also featured distinguished attendees such as Austrian-Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach and North York-based developer Jack Eisenberger, recently embroiled in the Ontario Greenbelt scandal.